EAACI Congress Scholarship and Poster Prize for Maximilian Schiener

EAACI Congress 2017, Helsinki

Maximilian Schiener, Ph.D. student in the group of PD Dr. Simon Blank (“Molecular and Translational Allergology”) at the Institute of Allergy Research, received an EAACI Congress Scholarship to attend the EAACI Congress 2017 held in Helsinki, Finland from 17-21 June 2017. The scholarship included all travel expenses, registration for the congress and accommodation in Helsinki. Moreover, his abstract entitled “Polistes venom allergy: identification and immunological characterization of novel allergens” was selected for an oral presentation and won the abstract prize in the session “What’s new in insect venom allergy?”.